Plethora of UUnet outages and instabilities

Tue Jul 1 15:37:50 UTC 1997

On Tue, 1 Jul 1997 10:28:14 -0500 (CDT) 
 Joe Shaw <jshaw at insync.net> wrote:

> What would you suggest?  I've looked into the Ascend GRF, and if it
> performs as much as they hype it (never trust a salesman) then it must be
> one kickbutt little router.  My only question is who has some in a real
> world setup, doing BGP/OSPF/RIP?  I tried talking to psi.net about their
> GRF switchover, and ended up with someone trying to sell me bandwidth.

I'm using the GRF-400. It has multiple 155M SDH ATM links in it, works
like a dream...

I'm awaiting an FDDI link in to the LINX and then it will be peering with
around 25 other LINX members, so far in testing its done this with its eyes
closed...

# uname -a
Ascend Embedded/OS the-count.router.COLT.NET 2.1 Ascend Embedded/OS GR TA1.3.5 Kernel #1 (nit): Wed Apr 23 07:59:43 CDT 1997     nit at bsd2.netstar.com:/nit/A1_3_5/BSDI/sys/compile/RMS  i386

GateD-the-count.router.COLT.NET> show bgp peeras 6453
1GRF group type External AS 6453 local 8220 flags <>
1GRF  Peer: 207.45.206.245 ID: 207.45.206.253 Version: 4  Gateway: (null)
1GRF  Local ID: 195.110.64.2
1GRF  Local Addr:
1GRF            207.45.206.246+1540
1GRF   flags 0x20
1GRF   state 0x6 <Established>
1GRF   options 0x400001 <MetricOut MED>
1GRF   group bit: 0
1GRF   MED exported 1
1GRF   proto-precedence/BGP preference 170/-
1GRF   messages in 585246 (updates 573347, not updates 11899) 36927948 octets
1GRF   messages out 11908 (updates 2, not updates 11906) 226348 octets
1GRF   Last traffic (seconds): Received 17, Sent 44, Checked 44
1GRF   Inbound Timer: 0
1GRF   Outbound Timer: 0
1GRF   Received and buffered Octets: 0
1GRF   Active Holdtime: 180
1GRF Route Queue Timer: 
1GRF unset
1GRF Route Queue: empty

1GRF  Peer: 207.45.199.245 ID: 207.45.199.253 Version: 4  Gateway: (null)
1GRF  Local ID: 195.110.64.2
1GRF  Local Addr:
1GRF            207.45.199.246+179
1GRF   flags 0x20
1GRF   state 0x6 <Established>
1GRF   options 0x400011 <MetricOut Preference MED>
1GRF   group bit: 0
1GRF   MED exported 2
1GRF   proto-precedence/BGP preference 180/-
1GRF   messages in 138687 (updates 136013, not updates 2674) 8658107 octets
1GRF   messages out 2676 (updates 1, not updates 2675) 50891 octets
1GRF   Last traffic (seconds): Received 16, Sent 18, Checked 18
1GRF   Inbound Timer: 0
1GRF   Outbound Timer: 0
1GRF   Received and buffered Octets: 0
1GRF   Active Holdtime: 180
1GRF Route Queue Timer: 
1GRF unset
1GRF Route Queue: empty

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